Common terms

passwords

kerberos password is the one you use to telnet, to authenticate

(get tickets and/or tokens), and to read e-mail (usually)

local passwords are specific to a particular machine, and do not

have tickets. These are used for FTP, and should be

different from kerberos passwords

local disk

files kept on local disk are directly on the hard drive of the machine, i.e. /usrg0/bovik.

AFS

files kept in AFS are available on all SCS machines, and are kept on central servers.

Your AFS home directory is /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/username.

maildrop

Your maildrop machine is the machine your mail is recieved on, before

you read it. All mail sent to you in SCS will be forwarded to this machine,

and your mail client will retreive mail from it.